Hydra was a software project developed by a German organization called "The Hacker's Choice" (THC) that uses a dictionary attack to test for weak or simple passwords on one or many remote hosts running a variety of different services. It was designed as a proof-of-concept utility to demonstrate the ease of cracking poorly chosen passwords.
The project supports a wide range of services and protocols: TELNET, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP-PROXY, SMB, SMBNT, MS-SQL, MYSQL, REXEC, RSH, RLOGIN, CVS, SNMP, SMTP-AUTH, SOCKS5, VNC, POP3, IMAP, NNTP, PCNFS, ICQ, SAP/R3, LDAP, PostgreSQL, Teamspeak, Cisco auth, Cisco enable, and Cisco AAA. It is licensed under version 2.0 of the GNU General Public License with the additional terms that the software may not be used for illegal purposes, and any commercial service or program that uses Hydra must give credit to THC.[1]
The 5.0 release of Hydra, released in November 2005, marked the 10th anniversary of the hacking group. The current release is version 5.4, released in May 2006.[1]
On September 2007, to comply with new German laws regarding distribution of hacking tools to the public, THC stopped making the program available.[2] [3]
Hydra is frequently used for Teamspeak password recovery.
References
- ^ a b van Hauser (2006-05-05). "THC-HYDRA - fast and flexible network login hacker". The Hackers Choice. http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra/. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ^ User "0x12ca3902" (2007-09-01). "THC News". The (German) Hacker's Choice. http://germany.thc.org/news.php?s=2. Retrieved 2008-10-18. "Dear visitors, dear fans and supporters of THC. As a consequence of the new German law on 'hacking tools', THC (The Hacker's Choice) decided to re-structure its team and split into a German and Freeworld division. German members will not continue to develop and distribute THC releases and papers. Members outside Germany will continue in the spirit of THC on some servers outside Europe. We are sorry."
- ^ "The Hacker's Choice" (2007). "THC Press Release". http://freeworld.thc.org/welcome/press.html. Retrieved 2009-02-28. "We surrender! The German fraction of THC stops all activities that have been labeled illegal under new German anti hacker law."
External links
- http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra/ - Hydra homepage
- http://www.thc.org/ - THC homepage
- http://freeworld.thc.org/releases/hydra-5.4-src.tar.gz - Source tarball for the 5.4 release
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